weekday

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Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

1. Any day of the week except Sunday and often also Saturday.

   In countries with a six-day workweek (including all countries in the past), the weekdays are the same as the workdays (working days). In countries with a five-day workweek, the term weekday sometimes has the old meaning "all days except Sunday" and sometimes refers to "all days except Saturday and Sunday".

Synonyms

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Translations

weekday

• Basque: astegun (eu)
• Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平日 (zh) (píngrì), 平常日 (zh) (píngchángrì)

• Danish: almindelig ugedag
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
• Esperanto: labortago
• Finnish: arkipäivä
• French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
• German: Wochentag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) f (kathimeriní)
• Indonesian: hari biasa
• Italian: giorno feriale m

• Japanese: 平日 (ja) (heijitsu), ウィークデー (wīkudē)
• Korean: 평일 (ko) (pyeongil) (平日 (ko))
• Latin: feria
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag m
• Macedonian: делник m (délnik)
• Norwegian: hverdag (no) m
• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Polish: dzień roboczy m
• Portuguese: dia de semana m
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабочий день m (rabóčij den'), будний день m (búdnij den'), будни (ru) pl (búdni)
• Swedish: vardag (sv) c

Related terms

• week
• weeknight